Turn on the Power with Agile ECM

Ignorance is bliss, right? One of my favorite television shows growing up was “Hogan’s Heros.” The central theme was how Hogan and his team of “POWs” were not only truly running the prison camp, but were in reality coordinating an entire allied POW extraction organization. All under the noses of the bumbling, out of touch, Colonel Klink and his right hand man, “I know nothing!” Sergeant Schulz. The key to Hogan’s success was his intelligence network…which empowered him to always stay at least two steps ahead of Klink. He understood the value of intelligence, and leveraged it to his and his country’s advantage.

Today, with business moving literally at the speed of light, everyone is looking for an advantage. And the advantage, many times today, is locked directly under our noses – in our organizational data silos. “Data, data everywhere, but what does it all mean?” The problem for most is connecting the dots, or correlating the data, but harnessed properly and it can become the greatest of all opportunities. Probably the best known modern-day exploitation (and I don’t mean that derogatorily) or leveraging of business data is Google. We all know the story, so I won’t bore you with it. But Google is constantly introducing new tools and applications which are the direct result of analyzing the interactions and behaviors of its massive cloud of users. “Creating new economic value from unthinkably large amounts of information is its lifeblood” says the Economist magazine. And while the tendency is to think that “we cannot do that…” the reality is that everyone can take a page from the Google playbook. Every organization that has existed for any amount of time has data assets which can be intelligently leveraged. The key is, gaining the ability to correlate and learn from its own historical experiences…both good and bad. Visit our website today, www.UnitySystems.biz/businessintelligence for an overview of how Agile ECM can help you gain that precious competitive advantage.